This retrospective analysis describes active duty U.S. Army soldiers who died from 2014 to 2019, utilizing administrative data sources to calculate mortality rates, assess trends by category of death, and identify leading causes of death within subpopulations.

This Surveillance Snapshot provides the number of U.S. military active component service members prescribed HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis medication in 2023.

This Surveillance Snapshot presents a comparison of U.S. active component military and general population HIV incidence rates in 2021, the most recent year for which stratified U.S. data were available, using indirect standardization by sex, age, and race and ethnicity.

This study provides the first estimate of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis coverage in the U.S. military, defined as the proportion of the persons taking HIV PrEP out of the estimated number of persons who had indications for it, that is also comparable to U.S. civilian estimates. The population with indications for HIV PrEP was obtained from the ...

This study compared estimates of the prevalence of and risk factors for tobacco and nicotine use obtained from the 2018 Health Related Behaviors Survey and Periodic Health Assessment survey. The HRBS and the PHA are important Department of Defense sources of data on health behavior collected from U.S. military service members.

The U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends influenza vaccination for all health care personnel, including MHS staff, to protect both themselves and their patients.

This Instruction reissues DOD Directive 6025.13 (Reference (a)) as a DOD Instruction in accordance with the authority in DoDD 5124.02 (Reference (b)), and establishes DOD policy on issues related to MQA programs and clinical quality management activities.

Any PS event that both reaches the patient (i.e., adverse events and no-harm events) and has an HRM assessment that determines that the event is likely to present a possible financial loss to the Federal Government. All DOD RE are PCEs. All events that trigger a PCE will also be referred to the PS manager to ensure capture in the joint PS reporting system...

A person designated to make DES decisions for the service member. This could be a court-appointed guardian or a representative in accordance with DoDM 6025.18.

A person designated to make DES decisions for the Service member. This could be a court-appointed guardian or a representative in accordance with DoDI 6025.18.

This issuance implements requirements in Sections 1074a, 10149, and 10206 of Title 10, United States Code; establishes policy, assigns responsibility, and provides procedures for individual medical readiness; establishes a total force medical readiness goal of 90 percent or higher for each Military Service and DOD Component and establishes a partially ...

Respiratory pathogens, such as influenza and adenovirus, have been the main focus of the Department of Defense Global Respiratory Pathogen Surveillance Program (DoDGRPSP) since 1976.1. However, DoDGRPSP also began focusing on SARS-CoV-2 when COVID-19 was declared a pandemic illness in early March 2020.2. Following this declaration, the DOD quickly ...

Exertional (or exercise-associated) hyponatremia refers to a low serum, plasma, or blood sodium concentration (below 135 mEq/L) that develops during or up to 24 hours following prolonged physical activity. Acute hyponatremia creates an osmotic imbalance between fluids outside and inside of cells.

Surveillance Snapshot: Influenza Immunization Among U.S. Armed Forces Health Care Workers, August 2016–April 2021

Update: Exertional Hyponatremia, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2005–2020